Picturepocket's Blog

Category: guns

  • My First Day of School

    Yesterday was my first day of working in an elementary school. For the last two decades, I have taught college-aged students or tutored, so working with littles is a massive shift. I have school-aged children of my own, but groups are still a challenge. The veteran kindergarten teacher said it was like herding cats and…

  • Angry Young Men

    I keep hearing voices in the media wondering about the motive of the attempted assassin. I am not sure what his particular ideas were, but it seems to fit pattern of public violence. Shooters are often angry young men. There have been several who went through high school, outside of the group, seeming inconsequential to…

  • Don’t Build a Bunker

    Tim and I spent yesterday just chilling between work and the holiday onslaught. We ate microwaved leftovers and binge watched the Netflix movie adaptation of Leave the World Behind. I had listened to the audio book during the Covid lockdown. It’s a fictional “what if” about a family trapped in an Airbnb when the US…

  • Ballots over Bullets

    When I was a kid, I asked my Dad what the word “society” meant. He said that it meant “other people”. What I didn’t realize is that he was making an observational commentary. While the dictionary meaning is “community (that includes ourselves)”, he was implying that, in common use, people want someone else to take…

  • Plea for Peace

    I don’t have a full comprehension of either situation, but my heart is moved by the suffering.

  • Freedom From Fear

    Each subsequent shooting doesn’t make you sad, it makes you mad. Furious, even.